Wrong abstract header in memoir

Question

The header of the abstract of my thesis is the header of the previous section, Abbreviations, it should be "Abstract" instead of "Abbreviations", but I don't know how to fix it. Here is the latex code of my thesis:

% !TeX spellcheck = en_CA
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oldfontcommands]{memoir}
\usepackage{saidphdthesis}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman} 
\thispagestyle{empty}
\include{title}
\cleardoublepage
\tableofcontents*
\cleardoublepage
\listoffigures*
\cleardoublepage
\listoftables*
\cleardoublepage

\include{nomenclature}

\include{abstract}

\include{acknowledgement}

\pagenumbering{arabic} 

\include{Introduction}

\include{chapter1}

\include{chapter2}

\include{chapter3}

\include{conclusion}

\bibliographystyle{apsr}
\bibliography{merged}
\end{document}

saidphdthesis is the style file that includes all the settings of the thesis.

Any help would be more than welcome.

Answer 1

What you have done is a mystery wrapped up in \include{file} where we have no idea what is in the various files. Try debugging it yourself by replacing each \include{file} by the first few lines of the file (no need to go beyond {chapter2}, also just keep the \tableofcontents* but not the other listof.... Also replace the first \pagenumbering{roman} by \frontmatter and the first \pagenumbering{arabic} by \mainmatter. You would do well to consider providing an MWE of the edited code.

Check the memoir documentation (> texdoc memoir) for the effects of \frontmatter and \mainmatter.

Answer 2

I solved the problem by including the following line at the end of abstract.tex:

\markboth{Abstract}{Abstract}